claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix Daily usage limit exhausted within hours while weekly limit is only 33% — usage tracking bug (Max plan)

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• This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

Bug Description

Daily usage limit is being exhausted within a few hours of use, while my weekly limit shows only 33% consumed. These two numbers are mathematically inconsistent if they are tracking the same usage.

This has been happening for the last 2 days (May 15–17, 2026).

Claude Code Version

Latest (as of May 17, 2026)

Platform

macOS

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start a Claude Code session (Max plan)
2. Work normally — same workflow as previous weeks
3. Daily limit hits within a few hours
4. Check weekly usage — only 33% consumed

Expected Behavior

Daily limit consumption should be proportional to weekly usage. If weekly is at 33%, daily should not be anywhere near exhausted.

Actual Behavior

• Daily limit: exhausted within hours of normal use
• Weekly limit: only 33% consumed
• This mismatch has occurred for 2 consecutive days

Additional Context

• Plan: Claude Max
• Primary use: Claude Code with large codebases (agentic sessions)
• No unusual activity — same workflow as previous weeks when limits were fine
• This matches the pattern reported in issue #41084 (0% daily / 41% weekly mismatch)
• The May 10–16 Anthropic incident may be related

This appears to be a phantom usage / double-counting bug in daily token tracking. Weekly tracking seems accurate but daily is over-reporting significantly.

Please investigate and credit back any phantom usage from May 15–17.

What Should Happen?

Daily limit consumption should be proportional to weekly usage. If weekly limit is at 33%, the daily limit should have approximately 33% consumed (or ~67% remaining), not exhausted.

Expected behavior:

• Daily and weekly limits should be synchronized and derived from the same underlying usage counter
• Exhausting the daily limit should correspondingly impact the weekly limit by a proportional amount
• A user at 33% weekly usage should never see "daily limit exhausted" unless they have genuinely used 100% of their daily allocation

The current behavior suggests either the daily limit resets to a low cap independently of weekly usage, or there is a double-counting bug where daily usage is counted multiple times within the same 24h window.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start a Claude Code session on Claude Max plan
2. Begin normal development work (file reads, edits, git commands)
3. Within a few hours, receive "daily usage limit reached" error
4. Check Claude.ai account → Usage stats → observe weekly limit is only ~33% consumed
5. Note the mathematical impossibility: daily exhausted ≠ 33% weekly usage

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

2.1.119 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

No response